Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed 10-19-24 hour 1
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Speaker 7: That is epic, That is Titan's grips. That is questing
Speaker 7: Beast is the name of the band and we're going
Speaker 7: to talk to them in a moment.
Speaker 8: They are in studio with us. Welcome everybody. This is
Speaker 8: Matt Connorton Unleashed.
Speaker 7: And we are live from the studios of wm NH
Speaker 7: ninety five point three FM and Glorious of Manchester, New Hampshire.
Speaker 7: And of course you can also stream the show. Go
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Speaker 7: your live streaming options, social media links, contact infoshow archives,
Speaker 7: et cetera, et cetera. Today is Saturday, October nineteen twenty
Speaker 7: twenty four, and we've got a big show for you today.
Speaker 7: We have Questing Beast Second hour, We've got Temple Mountain
Speaker 7: is coming Back. Third hour, we have Dead by Wednesday.
Speaker 7: Lots of today's action packed. So Jenny is not here
Speaker 7: with me this week, but she'll be back next week.
Speaker 7: But without further ado, joining us in studio, here is
Speaker 7: Shane and Jane from Questing Beast.
Speaker 8: Welcome, thanks for having us.
Speaker 7: So is it just the two of you? Is this
Speaker 7: the band? Is the the two of you?
Speaker 9: No, So, as far as right now are full band.
Speaker 9: We also have Jane's older brother, Joe as our singer.
Speaker 9: Oh okay, and then we have a drummer who's not
Speaker 9: related to any of us, but he's kind of like
Speaker 9: having a grandpa and an uncle in the same person.
Speaker 7: Okay, what does that mean? Collaborate if you would. I mean,
Speaker 7: you know, we're not in the South, so this you know,
Speaker 7: I'm confused.
Speaker 9: Well, he's fun and goofy like your uncle. Okay, but
Speaker 9: in many ways.
Speaker 10: It's very old like your grandpa.
Speaker 8: Okay, that makes sense, gotcha, gotcha?
Speaker 11: And that's his Christian He's great.
Speaker 10: He's a phenomenal drummer.
Speaker 11: Phenomenal drummer.
Speaker 8: Well, very good.
Speaker 7: So so what what do you what do you each
Speaker 7: do in the band?
Speaker 10: We both play guitar, You both play guitar.
Speaker 7: Okay, very cool, and you've got a big show tonight.
Speaker 7: We should plug that right off the top. You're gonna
Speaker 7: be playing at Terminus, correct.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Nashua with Let's see Dad.
Speaker 7: Harrison, the Vegans, the Gray Curtain, Horror, and able Blood.
Speaker 8: All great bands. Actually.
Speaker 7: Out of all those bands, so the Nigans, we have
Speaker 7: not had them on the show yet, but everyone else
Speaker 7: has been on the show.
Speaker 8: Cool. Nice, Yeah, we had the Great Curtain, Horror and
Speaker 8: able Blood.
Speaker 7: Jesus was that last week? It becomes a blur. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: all all great bands and and able Blood has actually
Speaker 7: been on the show a few times now.
Speaker 10: We played our first gig with them.
Speaker 8: Oh with able Blood. Oh very cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome that song Titan's Grip and we'll
Speaker 7: we'll play more later. But really it takes you on
Speaker 7: a journey, lots of lots of cool changes in it,
Speaker 7: and very very complex. But let me let me start
Speaker 7: with this because I kind of have a little bit
Speaker 7: of an idea just from googling Questing Beast, but what
Speaker 7: what what is that? What is Questing Beast? Where does
Speaker 7: the name come from?
Speaker 9: So the name comes from Arthurian legend. I saw it
Speaker 9: on a magic card and I was like, that's epic.
Speaker 9: That's an epic name. It's a great name for a band.
Speaker 9: And I did some research found out is from the
Speaker 9: theory and legend read the legend, was like, I don't
Speaker 9: want to write that story. That story has been written
Speaker 9: and it's got nothing to do with anything that I
Speaker 9: want to write music about. So I came up with
Speaker 9: a different story that's kind of about the birth of
Speaker 9: the Questing Piece. So I gave it like its own
Speaker 9: origin story and everything okay, And I basically had that outline,
Speaker 9: and then we sort of wrote songs based on where
Speaker 9: we thought it would fit, like within the storyline.
Speaker 7: So the story came first, and then the songs came Yes,
Speaker 7: based on the story.
Speaker 11: Yes.
Speaker 9: I think that the only song that that may not
Speaker 9: be true for is call the North, because that was
Speaker 9: the first one that we wrote. Oh and we had
Speaker 9: just gotten together and we're like, oh, yeah, big riffs,
Speaker 9: here we go. Yeah, And so I was like that
Speaker 9: that song specifically, I was like, what does this make
Speaker 9: me feel? Like I was like, it makes me feel
Speaker 9: like I'm actually going on like a long expedition somewhere.
Speaker 9: So it felt to me like that one specifically, I
Speaker 9: was like, this is about going to a place, so
Speaker 9: like Call the North seems like a good, good game,
Speaker 9: you know.
Speaker 7: Okay, But the rest of the songs are based on
Speaker 7: the story or the outline of the story.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: Did did the story change at all? Oh yeah, you know,
Speaker 7: as you're as you're writing these songs, I can see
Speaker 7: how that might happen. Where As the songs as you're
Speaker 7: writing them and they kind of evolve and form, the
Speaker 7: story itself changed as well.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, and the story is still changing. The idea
Speaker 9: is that we want this to be like a trilogy, okay,
Speaker 9: and so like we're constantly thinking about, like still analyzing
Speaker 9: like the first album even to be like, you know,
Speaker 9: how does this dictate where we go on the second album?
Speaker 10: You know, and.
Speaker 9: It's it's a really interesting way to write, but it
Speaker 9: is also increase. I mean, I understand why, like all
Speaker 9: the Game of Thrones books aren't done, you know, I'm
Speaker 9: just doing it with an album. This is like nine
Speaker 9: pages of text maybe, you know, Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, I can imagine, and the songs themselves are
Speaker 7: are complex. I mean, is that the most challenging part
Speaker 7: of it is creating the music to go with the story?
Speaker 12: So kind of because the story dictates so much of what,
Speaker 12: like our musical decision making is. Yeah, and not just
Speaker 12: lyrically right lyrics is an entire other realm of added
Speaker 12: layers of description to the story. The music itself is
Speaker 12: so dictated by what we're trying to convey in each
Speaker 12: song as a story point that the music itself. So
Speaker 12: you say, it sounds like going on a journey, and
Speaker 12: that's because the music itself is telling a huge bit
Speaker 12: of story. Yeah, I mean it's not not every song
Speaker 12: is telling so much as far as information goes, but
Speaker 12: it's so much world building, and we're trying to convey
Speaker 12: so many little nuanced emotions and basically explaining something through music.
Speaker 12: So it came out everything was just so much challenge.
Speaker 12: Like we would get something down we felt like it
Speaker 12: explained what we wanted to do, then we'd listen to
Speaker 12: it and be like, well, this doesn't sound amazing musically, Okay,
Speaker 12: so we have to change it now to sound it
Speaker 12: kind of sound amazing musically. But now we feel like
Speaker 12: it doesn't convey what we wanted to say in the story.
Speaker 12: You can see how if you're not careful, we would
Speaker 12: go back to the drawing board on either the music
Speaker 12: or the story too many times to where like sometimes
Speaker 12: we had to stop and just like fall back. Some
Speaker 12: stuff happened naturally, this song being one of them. I
Speaker 12: didn't want to write this song.
Speaker 8: What do you mean?
Speaker 11: I didn't want to write this song because we already
Speaker 11: had I think we had.
Speaker 10: We had six songs.
Speaker 12: Yeah, we had six songs, and I felt like it
Speaker 12: was good. You know, with the addition of the two
Speaker 12: instrumentals on the album, it would have been eight songs, right. No, No, no,
Speaker 12: it would have been So we wrote two more after that, right,
Speaker 12: because then we wrote Beneath Read Leaves too. But yeah,
Speaker 12: I didn't want to write this song because I just
Speaker 12: felt like, like, Okay, we're good, We've written enough. This
Speaker 12: is our first album. And I actually remember sitting down
Speaker 12: with a little bit of what he wrote and just
Speaker 12: everything became so complex, so quick, and I was angry
Speaker 12: the whole time I wrote. I was like, dang it,
Speaker 12: this is gonna be so complex.
Speaker 8: This is awesome.
Speaker 7: Damn yeah, I would imagine too. You see, I've played
Speaker 7: a lot of bands, but nothing I never played in
Speaker 7: anything like this. You know, every band I ever played
Speaker 7: and it was you know, verse chorus, you know, your
Speaker 7: standard thing. Yeah, and uh so I've always been kind
Speaker 7: of fascinated by I mean, just what must go into
Speaker 7: writing the songs and then learning the songs and then
Speaker 7: rehearsing the songs.
Speaker 10: Are definitely two different things.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, I mean, you
Speaker 7: must have to rehearse quite a bit, right for the
Speaker 7: live shows, because every week you've got to be it,
Speaker 7: you know. I mean, if you're if you're a punk
Speaker 7: band and you're playing three chords and you make a mistake,
Speaker 7: nobody even notice it. Well, with what you're doing. If
Speaker 7: somebody makes a mistake, it's it's probably hard to even
Speaker 7: hide that, right.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 9: There's certain points in different songs where it's almost like
Speaker 9: you're you're like surfing on a razor's edge, you know
Speaker 9: what I mean, And like if you fall off, it
Speaker 9: is not easy to get back on.
Speaker 8: I can imagine, yeah, you know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and we also have like the added challenge of
Speaker 9: not having a live bass player right now. Okay, so
Speaker 9: our drummer plays to a click track. Yeah, so we
Speaker 9: have like bass tracks at the moment. But it allows
Speaker 9: us to do cool things like it automatically like switches
Speaker 9: out the synth patch that we're using as we're playing
Speaker 9: and stuff like that. So oh wow, it allows us
Speaker 9: to like use all these different sense that we made
Speaker 9: for the record live too.
Speaker 12: Okay, Yeah, it makes it a little bit easier. Recording
Speaker 12: and learning and playing are just a whole three separate things.
Speaker 12: For this recording is so bit by bit, sentence by sentence. Basically,
Speaker 12: if you think about it in terms of writing a story,
Speaker 12: it's like writing sentence by sentence, let alone lyrics. I
Speaker 12: don't even get in on lyrics. I'm more on the
Speaker 12: music side of things. I contributed one lyric to this
Speaker 12: whole album truly, and so yeah, like writing it just
Speaker 12: is so intensive. And I mean, what, it took us
Speaker 12: two almost three years to just write this. Any music
Speaker 12: that we're gonna write that's expanding on this is going
Speaker 12: to take us probably a similar timeframe. But then learning
Speaker 12: it is like, okay, now that we have the finished
Speaker 12: product and all the riffs are what they're going to be,
Speaker 12: and all the orders of everything is pretty much decided on.
Speaker 12: Now try to learn all that while standing up, switching
Speaker 12: effects and doing backing vocals, and then sometimes you're.
Speaker 11: Like, oh, I can't.
Speaker 12: You know, we have to figure out, you know, delegate,
Speaker 12: who's going to play what. Sometimes sometimes we need to
Speaker 12: put something in a backing track because there's too many
Speaker 12: parts stuff like that. So it's a whole puzzle.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, like the beginning of Titans Grip, we don't hire
Speaker 9: three dudes to come up and play play that harmony
Speaker 9: at the beginning.
Speaker 11: It would be great. We don't have it, like.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, so who plays bass on the on the
Speaker 7: studio tracks?
Speaker 8: Does one of you do that?
Speaker 10: Or no?
Speaker 9: So we got a guy. His name is Chase Bryant.
Speaker 9: He plays in a band called war Bringer. They're like
Speaker 9: an l a thrash bandy. Yeah, they're great.
Speaker 12: I love them, shouts out Chase, nicest guy, amazing bass player.
Speaker 12: Played the whole album on fretless bass in two days.
Speaker 10: Yeah, figure style. He's a absolute monster.
Speaker 11: Absolute monster, absolute great guy.
Speaker 12: Super super happy to have him just doing his thing.
Speaker 11: It was awesome.
Speaker 7: That's another thing that I'm always because I'm a bass player,
Speaker 7: but I've never played a fretless and that always impresses
Speaker 7: me too.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean a lot of people when I tell him
Speaker 9: that he's playing fretless on it, they can't even tell
Speaker 9: because it's just so in tune, you know.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Our friend Lacey, who I am in the uh in
Speaker 7: the chat room, says, uh, that's why so much can
Speaker 7: be lost in studio work so clinical And oh I
Speaker 7: see Jenny is in there as well. Hello, good morning.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 10: So when you.
Speaker 8: Like, do you play these live before you record them
Speaker 8: or do you do?
Speaker 7: You? Okay, so you don't, you don't go into the
Speaker 7: studio and then once that's done start playing them.
Speaker 10: Live or well we do we do.
Speaker 9: We like demo out all the tracks, so we've got
Speaker 9: able to on my computer at the practice space and
Speaker 9: we just record on that the demo version, send that
Speaker 9: off to the studio that we actually want to record it.
Speaker 9: We went to matt Oaks Studio in Austin and recorded
Speaker 9: with Benny Grotto, who did a great job.
Speaker 8: Yeah, everything, everything sounds amazing.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but so it Sometimes we kind of play it
Speaker 9: live before we put it into the demos, But most
Speaker 9: of the time we get the demos done, we get
Speaker 9: that to a point where we like it, and then
Speaker 9: that's when we start the learning processes. Okay, and then
Speaker 9: we go in and record for real cities. Yeah, and
Speaker 9: going to the Big Boys studio. Yeah, but I what,
Speaker 9: I forget what your name was, but who said something
Speaker 9: about studios being clinical and oh yeah, yeah lazy. So
Speaker 9: there's definitely I think one or two. There's there's certain
Speaker 9: things that I think can be kind of sporadic when
Speaker 9: you're like actually composing and stuff like that, and there's
Speaker 9: certain things that are like difficult to replicate non spur
Speaker 9: of the moment. Like, for example, there's a version of
Speaker 9: the Corruption solo that I had had a long time
Speaker 9: ago that I kind of wish I had still had
Speaker 9: for like, it was just a specific recording where I
Speaker 9: was like in my room with the amp and it
Speaker 9: was like super feedback ye yeah, and it like it
Speaker 9: sounded terrible but awesome because of how like I don't know,
Speaker 9: rat it sounded, you know what I mean? Yeah, And
Speaker 9: so like it And it's always like very minute details
Speaker 9: like that, you know what I mean. It's not like, oh,
Speaker 9: this song is ruined because we recorded in a good.
Speaker 7: Space, you right, right, No, that makes sense? How I mean,
Speaker 7: how many hours do you think? Probably hard to put
Speaker 7: a number on it, but like like just just learning
Speaker 7: to play one of these songs proficiently.
Speaker 10: I mean that's I can tell you.
Speaker 9: I don't know about that all the songs. I mean,
Speaker 9: some of them are easier than others. Yeah, but I
Speaker 9: can tell you that the Beneath Red Leaves, the Beneath
Speaker 9: Red Leaves solo specifically took me so long.
Speaker 10: I probably every day leading up to going into play.
Speaker 9: That in the studio for like two weeks at least,
Speaker 9: spent like two hours a day just like ripping through
Speaker 9: that thing trying to get it down. Oh yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 11: That song taught me.
Speaker 12: That song taught me how to play rhythm guitar differently, really, Yeah,
Speaker 12: one hundred percent.
Speaker 11: I play things.
Speaker 12: I play that song differently and more efficiently than I
Speaker 12: did when we went and recorded it. Taught me like
Speaker 12: deficiencies in how I played certain things.
Speaker 8: Really.
Speaker 12: Yeah, So talk about a learning process, like I learned
Speaker 12: the song, but then I kept learning from it for
Speaker 12: about a year to where I am now with it. Yeah,
Speaker 12: same with him, honestly, Like it informs us so much
Speaker 12: about our ability because you can write something right piece
Speaker 12: by piece and you can make a demo and then
Speaker 12: when you go to play it all at once all
Speaker 12: the way through, you really like find out about yourself.
Speaker 8: I can imagine that.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, you know, going from playing all this rhythm
Speaker 12: to lead and he's you know, playing all the lead
Speaker 12: and it's crazy.
Speaker 8: So wow. Yeah. Have you ever written something where or or.
Speaker 7: Just had an idea where you you know, you maybe
Speaker 7: record it and everything so you're committed to it and
Speaker 7: then you kind of have a moment where you go, geez,
Speaker 7: I don't know, I'm kind of regretting this one a
Speaker 7: little bit.
Speaker 10: Yeah really yeah. Yeah, we edit super hard.
Speaker 9: Do we cut things that we don't like and try
Speaker 9: and or like try and make it work better?
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I think that one of the things that we really
Speaker 9: want to focus on going forward is like, I don't know,
Speaker 9: just getting better at making sure everything fits together.
Speaker 10: Well yeah, yeah, not that I don't think.
Speaker 9: That the stuff on the first record fits together well,
Speaker 9: you know, song by song, but I think that there's
Speaker 9: always room for improvement, sure, you know.
Speaker 7: And how important is it to you as players when
Speaker 7: you when you play live to to replicate exactly like
Speaker 7: do you try to replicate exactly. Note for note, what's
Speaker 7: on the recordings or do the songs breathe a little bit?
Speaker 10: Or how do There's not really a lot of breathing room.
Speaker 9: There's a lot of very specific harmony that's going on
Speaker 9: and stuff like that, you know what I mean. So yeah,
Speaker 9: And that's not to say that there aren't places where
Speaker 9: we could incorporate.
Speaker 12: Some sure, yeah, but I'd say as far as NOE choice,
Speaker 12: it's never different. As far as certain stylistic things, we
Speaker 12: goof off a little bit here and there, but it's
Speaker 12: we're still playing pretty much what's written. Okay, almost, i'd
Speaker 12: say ninety nine percent.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, okay, if you're just joining us, we have
Speaker 7: Questing Beasts here with us live in studio on the
Speaker 7: Saturday morning, and I think we should play another track.
Speaker 7: I'd love to hear another one. So we'll play this
Speaker 7: so at Crater's Edge.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, what what?
Speaker 8: What should we know?
Speaker 7: Anything?
Speaker 8: We should know about this specifically before we hear it.
Speaker 9: No, I want I want people in the comments to
Speaker 9: try and guess what the footsteps are.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, what's making that sound? People?
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, So well that's a clue then, So
Speaker 7: they're not actual footsteps.
Speaker 10: That's correct.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, I pay attention, listen closely everybody. All right,
Speaker 7: So this is Questing Beast and uh this song is
Speaker 7: called at Creator's Edge.
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Speaker 6: But when the stars from where you can, I.
Speaker 16: Like miss.
Speaker 1: Far logic joins.
Speaker 2: In a moment of fall me the story something my
Speaker 2: coll stinking birds on black thing of course things cold,
Speaker 2: my face ran thing my grands.
Speaker 5: From as climest face, collasting about strength, waste.
Speaker 14: My falls on face, singing my dispaceing the crime, breaking
Speaker 14: up my life, I squeen cake.
Speaker 15: William I was like, oh, the fortune of this starts right.
Speaker 2: Hip the ram. It's my stairs nevery d look a
Speaker 2: bar scar.
Speaker 17: Thank st bloodys de wh I'm drunk it the.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 15: So we went down a little too.
Speaker 8: Why am God, I'm taking a child?
Speaker 6: Why do you go to the.
Speaker 1: Chalk your troll and starting I'm taking about.
Speaker 3: Time, no chop but time drinking my time nor chop
Speaker 3: is down.
Speaker 7: Why that is at Creator's Edge by Questing Beasts. We
Speaker 7: have two members of the band. There's those footsteps again?
Speaker 7: All right, where did the footsteps come from?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 8: I can't go ahead.
Speaker 10: Oh no, I just hadn't started yet.
Speaker 8: I thought it looked like it looked like your mouth
Speaker 8: was moving, and I'm like, oh no.
Speaker 10: I didn't. I was trying to think of how I
Speaker 10: want to do approach the answer?
Speaker 8: Gotcha, gotcha.
Speaker 7: I didn't see any guesses.
Speaker 8: In the chat room.
Speaker 9: So well, it came from a box of rocks. What
Speaker 9: you're hearing is a box of rocks, really cardboard box
Speaker 9: with a bunch of rocks inside of it. It's some
Speaker 9: advanced studio equipment.
Speaker 8: Oh very good, very good. Let's see uh in the
Speaker 8: chat room.
Speaker 7: Oh, Hans Smith from the band Sepsis was saying that
Speaker 7: the instrumentals make him feel like he's on an adventure
Speaker 7: on the sea.
Speaker 11: Oh very nice.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah nice.
Speaker 7: Lacey says a strong Queen's Reich vibe. Is that one
Speaker 7: of your influences Queen's Reke.
Speaker 12: I wouldn't say specifically, but love Queen's Reke.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, and that's a huge compliment.
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Let's see.
Speaker 7: I saw somebody else in here too.
Speaker 10: Oh.
Speaker 7: Be Pinard is in the chatroom. Big support of the show. Hello,
Speaker 7: nice to see you in there, and also Mariam Bannish
Speaker 7: joins us in the chat room. Yeah, tell tell me
Speaker 7: more about influences I imagine, I mean a lot of
Speaker 7: a lot of prog and really complex stuff for both
Speaker 7: of you, I would, I would.
Speaker 9: Guess, yeah, yeah, sure, I'm just gonna do a quick
Speaker 9: top five. So for me, like my favorite two bands
Speaker 9: are Death Clock and Queens of the Stone Age. Yeah,
Speaker 9: and so I feel like my guitar playing is kind
Speaker 9: of like somewhere in between mean those two sort of bands.
Speaker 9: But outside of that, I mean, Baroness is Great, master
Speaker 9: Don as well. Both of those bands I think were
Speaker 9: actually very influential to me throughout the writing process of
Speaker 9: this first one, just as far as their ability to
Speaker 9: take these big, sprawling concepts, like from start to finish
Speaker 9: on these records, you know, in their own ways. And
Speaker 9: I guess I have to think of I said five,
Speaker 9: You did say five. Yeah, there is another one, I
Speaker 9: know for sure. I don't know, just various. There's lots
Speaker 9: of stuff, to be honest with you, Like, I'm all
Speaker 9: over the place as far as like listening to like
Speaker 9: technical death metal and like all these various things. Yeah, Jane,
Speaker 9: why don't you take over while I think of what
Speaker 9: a definitive five is.
Speaker 12: I'd say early on when I first started getting into
Speaker 12: progressive music was high school, and my big three would
Speaker 12: be Dream Theater, m Rush, and Porcupine Tree. Okay, and
Speaker 12: just as far as progressive music goes. And I was
Speaker 12: in a band in high school where we didn't cover
Speaker 12: any dream Theater, but that was my aspiration, you know.
Speaker 12: I was in a band with this guy, Adam Susie,
Speaker 12: amazing drummer, shouts out Adam Susie, and we just covered
Speaker 12: these prog songs and that's a huge influence on me.
Speaker 11: I religiously listened to Dream Theater, Rush. I grew up
Speaker 11: on Rush.
Speaker 12: My mom introduced me to Rush when I was really young.
Speaker 12: And then the heavier side of things I started to
Speaker 12: get into. Like I started off with some like metalcore bands.
Speaker 12: I think my earliest like real heavy band influence was
Speaker 12: a band called as Blood Runs Black, an old metal
Speaker 12: core band. But I started to really get into more
Speaker 12: technical death metal and stuff like that I got into college.
Speaker 12: But I come from a very diverse background, Like I
Speaker 12: was a jazz musician growing up, and I love hip hop.
Speaker 12: I made a lot of hip hop too, so I
Speaker 12: really yeah, for sure, And that was a humongous portion
Speaker 12: of my education in music. You know what I mean,
Speaker 12: was all those influences, so huge love for hip hop,
Speaker 12: huge love for technical death metal. I'd say the band
Speaker 12: that really bridged the gap for me when I was
Speaker 12: young between all that progue stuff and the more heavy
Speaker 12: stuff was a band called Born of Osiris. And that's
Speaker 12: when I learned about like Jason Richardson as a guitar
Speaker 12: player and started to kind of you know, all my
Speaker 12: favorite rhtters played the same guitars now and really got
Speaker 12: into a lot of that stuff. So huge influence on me,
Speaker 12: those guys John Patrucci obviously, but all that stuff.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 9: Thought my number five. Okay, it's definitely war Bringer. Okay, cool, Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 9: I don't know why that took me so long.
Speaker 7: Well, it's early, very good, very good if you are
Speaker 7: just joining us. Of course, we do have Questing Beasts
Speaker 7: here with us live in studio and they're playing a
Speaker 7: big show tonight. Of course, our friends at Terminus Underground
Speaker 7: in Nashua. Let's see this is the show has a
Speaker 7: specific name, the Haunted, oh Hollowed and haunted. Yes, want
Speaker 7: to make sure.
Speaker 8: I want to make sure I got the name right. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Terminus is a great place.
Speaker 1: Have you been there yet?
Speaker 10: No, not yet.
Speaker 8: I tell everybody the same thing.
Speaker 7: When you walk in, it's like walking into a different
Speaker 7: world when you walk into that room specifically, it's really cool.
Speaker 9: Apparently they're decorating it all up and stuff, or they
Speaker 9: were last night and everything, so it should be all
Speaker 9: good to go now. So it's gonna look awesome in
Speaker 9: there tonight.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, there you go. Yeah, that's gonna be tonight.
Speaker 7: Questing Beast along with Dad Harrison, the Vegans, The Gray Curtain, Horror,
Speaker 7: and Able Blood. Tickets are twenty dollars.
Speaker 8: You can get them.
Speaker 7: You have to go to Midnight Creatives Collective dot com.
Speaker 7: Tickets are available there. And that is show starts at
Speaker 7: eight pm.
Speaker 11: So I think show starts at six?
Speaker 8: Oh does it?
Speaker 11: Yes?
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I think doors are six.
Speaker 7: Oh I'm sorry, yeah, I was looking at the wrong thing. Yeah,
Speaker 7: all the right doors are five. Yeah, music starts at six.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 7: It's good you corrected me, because yeah, we don't want
Speaker 7: people showing up there late.
Speaker 10: Of us is paying attention.
Speaker 7: You're welcome, exactly, exactly yeah, and you know, there's a
Speaker 7: lot of bands, so it's good that it's starting early.
Speaker 7: That makes sense.
Speaker 9: Oh, yes, and we're we're actually opening this one, which
Speaker 9: is which is nice because we'll be able to get
Speaker 9: there set up immediately and then hang out forever.
Speaker 8: Do you that's right?
Speaker 1: Is there?
Speaker 8: Do you have a complex set up?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 9: I mean so all four of us us do vocals,
Speaker 9: and then we've got the computer that our drummer like
Speaker 9: triggers all the tracks from and everything. Yeah, it's kind
Speaker 9: of it's kind of a pain.
Speaker 7: I can imagine.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean it's a pain for us.
Speaker 12: I mean, if we cut out a vocal, it would
Speaker 12: still just be three vocals and then a few xlrs
Speaker 12: to the house. But like it's more of a pain
Speaker 12: for us, then it should be more of a pain
Speaker 12: for us than any sound guy.
Speaker 8: Or girl.
Speaker 10: But that has not been the case so far.
Speaker 8: Yeah, right right, Yeah, I can see how.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I can imagine, you know, And I think usually
Speaker 7: when it's when it's a band with kind of a
Speaker 7: you know, a really complex sophisticated sound, there's usually more
Speaker 7: to it, like I said, you know, compared to say,
Speaker 7: for example, just a punk band, you know, Yeah, when we.
Speaker 12: Get booked on gigs like that, we do feel a
Speaker 12: unique kind of pressure, especially if we're right in the
Speaker 12: middle of the bill. Oh yeah, just because and it's
Speaker 12: and it's not like we're not quick, and it's not
Speaker 12: like we haven't done this before, you know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and we have.
Speaker 11: I couldn't have streamlined.
Speaker 12: I set up our ableton session that has the click track,
Speaker 12: that has all of our sins on it, that has
Speaker 12: all of the bass tracks on it, and we have
Speaker 12: some simple stuff.
Speaker 11: We just have to run cables to the house. That's it.
Speaker 11: We have to set up all the hard stuff.
Speaker 12: Right right, And it's a huge brain puzzle for me,
Speaker 12: you know, to like troubleshoot stuff in real time, yeah,
Speaker 12: if anything's wrong, and then also set up my own
Speaker 12: guitar stuff in my own microphone and make sure I
Speaker 12: can hear myself and all that good stuff.
Speaker 11: Oh no doubt.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Does that ever happen where something goes wrong on
Speaker 7: the text pend and you got to, like you said,
Speaker 7: troubleshoot on the spot in real time.
Speaker 11: Thankfully, we've It's pretty funny.
Speaker 12: I think we have nine of those issues at home
Speaker 12: when we're practicing, Yeah, which is nice.
Speaker 8: Good good. Yeah, Well that's that's what how it should go.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, And I think it's all set up at this
Speaker 9: point so well as far as like like something really
Speaker 9: tragic would have to happen to like move the click
Speaker 9: track so it's like not in the right spot or
Speaker 9: something like that. Yeah, So I think it's I think
Speaker 9: we've got it pretty solid at this point.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I think there's also, like I said, you know, there's
Speaker 9: always improvements to be made, especially once you start thinking
Speaker 9: about like gear, you know, I mean that's an endless
Speaker 9: rabbit hole that'll leave you homeless if you go too far.
Speaker 7: Yep, yep, well said, Well said, Now what is uh?
Speaker 7: So this this album here, this has not been out
Speaker 7: that long, right, this is relatively new.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it came out in June, in June, okay, okay
Speaker 9: new to everybody else.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Are you already thinking about the next one in terms
Speaker 7: of like are you already writing for it?
Speaker 1: Or uh?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean we're always writing, yeah, I mean we
Speaker 9: play guitar. I play guitar personally at least like like
Speaker 9: three hours a day is like a bad day for me,
Speaker 9: And so I'm writing on an accident, you.
Speaker 12: Know, yeah, and then we're also purpose at least once
Speaker 12: to a couple of times a week. Right now, we're
Speaker 12: definitely back in the we're back in the shop.
Speaker 9: This is like gonna be our last show I think
Speaker 9: for this year, and you know, we'll have a bunch
Speaker 9: of stuff to announce for next year obviously and everything
Speaker 9: when the time comes. But we're gonna take this like
Speaker 9: hibernation time, I think is like a nice writing period,
Speaker 9: you know, just to kind of hang out and not
Speaker 9: necessarily even think about the first record for.
Speaker 11: A little bit, right right, Maybe play it and that's
Speaker 11: about it.
Speaker 7: Play it some right right, Yeah, you're gonna have to
Speaker 7: even even during your your hibernation period, shall we say,
Speaker 7: you're gonna you're still gonna have to play it or
Speaker 7: because you don't want to risk forget anything.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you definitely got to keep the Coles stoked.
Speaker 12: The upkeep on this stuff is unlike anything I've ever had,
Speaker 12: you know, I can imagine. Yeah, it's impossible for me
Speaker 12: to store certain things in a spot in my brain
Speaker 12: that's gonna stay forever unless I play it all the time.
Speaker 12: There's so much stuff up here.
Speaker 8: So yeah, yeah, no, that makes sense, that makes sense.
Speaker 8: Do you play the full album.
Speaker 1: Live we have.
Speaker 9: Yeah, we did it at our release show. Okay, we
Speaker 9: did it front to back. I wouldn't mind doing that again.
Speaker 9: But a lot of the times it seems, I don't know,
Speaker 9: it doesn't seem like the most pertinent way to get
Speaker 9: through a show. And a lot of times we're only
Speaker 9: getting like half hour sets and stuff like that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, what is it because some of some of
Speaker 7: the songs are pretty long. But yeah, right, what does
Speaker 7: a clock out out?
Speaker 10: Do?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 12: Forty three minutes? It's not that bad as a whole.
Speaker 12: There's a lot of like interlude stuff. Yeah, and as
Speaker 12: far as what we're playing, it's probably closer to like
Speaker 12: forty minutes.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 12: The issue is to play this album in the timespan
Speaker 12: that's outlined as it is for everybody to listen to live,
Speaker 12: is you know, pretty exhausting.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you need like a few.
Speaker 12: Minutes in between to take a deep breath. And because
Speaker 12: we do go song to songs sometimes, oh yeah, oh
Speaker 12: for sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 9: I don't think that the album itself is in the
Speaker 9: best order for a live show though, yes, okay.
Speaker 7: So it's in the order for the story obviously, but
Speaker 7: not necessarily for the live show.
Speaker 10: Correct.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, It's like it's like a good vibe to
Speaker 9: listen to, but it's it's like awkward to play through
Speaker 9: in that order.
Speaker 10: I think.
Speaker 7: Okay, no, that makes sense. Uh yeah, Hans Smith and
Speaker 7: the chat says, let the hibernation begin. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 7: mean that is what a lot of bands do though,
Speaker 7: at at least in this part of the country, you know,
Speaker 7: in the winter, you know, focusing on writing.
Speaker 9: And recording exactly. I mean, what am I going to do?
Speaker 9: Go drive, you know, five hours to play for fifty bucks?
Speaker 9: In New York it wants like snowy outside, Like, yeah,
Speaker 9: it's gonna be cold. I'm gonna smash my fingers while
Speaker 9: it's cold.
Speaker 10: Who wants to do that?
Speaker 19: You know?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's something I don't miss about There are things
Speaker 7: that I miss about playing live, but that's one of
Speaker 7: the things I don't miss is doing shows in the
Speaker 7: winter and and you know, if the weather's bad, and
Speaker 7: then you know, and then you don't know is it
Speaker 7: gonna be canceled? You're gonna get there and find out
Speaker 7: it's canceled. It's right, there's a lot that that goes
Speaker 7: with it, that can be quite miserable.
Speaker 10: Yeah, no, exactly, well, we will, we'll.
Speaker 7: Begin to wrap up, we'll play I was thinking we
Speaker 7: to end the segment. Maybe we'll play corruption.
Speaker 11: Oh sure, Oh that would be amazing.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I like this one a lot.
Speaker 10: Thank you.
Speaker 7: So, of course, uh oh, where should people go to
Speaker 7: find you online? What's the best place to go? Because
Speaker 7: if you just google Questing Beast, a lot comes up.
Speaker 9: So if you google Questing Beast banned, We've got a
Speaker 9: website up and we'll have a online store there within
Speaker 9: the next week.
Speaker 7: Excellent.
Speaker 9: We just got vinyl in, so we're gonna be trying
Speaker 9: to get rid of that as soon as we possibly can.
Speaker 7: Oh, very good, very good.
Speaker 10: Yeah, Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 12: And you can find us on any social media Facebook, Instagram,
Speaker 12: you can stream those the Yeah, you can stream our
Speaker 12: music basically anywhere Spotify, Apple Music, even Title if you
Speaker 12: want to listen to some high quality audio.
Speaker 7: Excellent, excellent, very good.
Speaker 10: Shout out to title.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, yes, and we'll remind everybody, of course. The
Speaker 7: Hallowed and Haunted Halloween Show tonight and Questing Beasts opening
Speaker 7: doors open at five. The show goes to midnight and
Speaker 7: also with Dead Harrison, then Egan's Able Blood, Horror and
Speaker 7: the Gray Curtain. So I have a great show tonight.
Speaker 7: It'll go fantastically.
Speaker 8: Yeah and uh and and thank you so much for
Speaker 8: coming in.
Speaker 7: This has been great.
Speaker 10: Thank you for having us.
Speaker 7: Absolutely I'm definitely a fan. So I really like, really
Speaker 7: like what you're doing. So if you are listening live
Speaker 7: on Saturday morning, we have Eric from Temple Mountain is
Speaker 7: going to be joining us and I think he's gonna
Speaker 7: be playing live in studio. I think he brought his
Speaker 7: guitar and he has a brand new single to debut
Speaker 7: on the show. So, but we are going to end
Speaker 7: this segment with this, uh. This is called this is
Speaker 7: from the album is Birth. By the way, where does
Speaker 7: where does the title come from? I assume it relates
Speaker 7: to the story.
Speaker 10: It's about the birth of the Questing Beast.
Speaker 8: Okay, makes sense? Ye makes sense? All right. So we're
Speaker 8: going to uh end the segment with this track.
Speaker 7: This is really good. This is called Corruption from Questing Beast.
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